Alejandra Rodriguez-Villamizar is a communications specialist, editor, and researcher based in Medellín, Colombia, with experience working at the intersection of investigative journalism, strategic communications, and multimedia storytelling. She is currently Editorial Consultant at KeyCrew, where she leads and refines editorial processes, and manages and mentors the editorial team. Before this role, Alejandra coordinated multimedia content production and designed impact metrics. She conducted in-depth research on organized crime across Latin American countries, contributing to investigative reports that inform public debate and policy discussions. Her career also includes work in digital strategy and audience engagement at University College London, where she supported the Anthropology Department’s outreach and career initiatives. Alejandra holds a BA in Communications and Journalism from Universidad EAFIT and an MSc in Politics, Violence and Crime from UCL, graduating with distinction. Her work is grounded in a people-centered approach that combines rigorous research, clear storytelling, and strategic thinking to generate social impact.
South Cobb County, Georgia, encompassing the cities of Austell, Powder Springs, and the newly incorporated Mableton, is undergoing a coordinated wave of policy changes that could reshape its development landscape. What makes the area unusual is not any single rezoning approval. Three adjacent municipalities are all actively revising their land use frameworks at the same ...
The instinct for most real estate investors is to follow the crowd, buy where population is growing, where demand is rising, where prices are climbing. On Long Island, that instinct may be exactly wrong. The areas gaining residents have already priced in the demand, while areas losing population may offer entry points that generate better ...
After eight years of a seller’s market, many Dallas-Fort Worth homeowners deferred maintenance and assumed they could negotiate repairs during due diligence. That assumption no longer holds. According to Crystal Solensky, Owner/Agent of Luxury Home Team at Keller Williams Realty Dallas Preston Road, property condition – not price – is now the most common reason ...
The standard formula for flipping houses, buy low, renovate fast, sell at a premium, depends on assumptions that have eroded in Tampa Bay over the past two years. Insurance costs have spiked after hurricane activity. Days on market have stretched. The spread between acquisition price and after-repair value has compressed to the point where many ...
The math for buying a home in northern New Jersey’s commuter belt has shifted considerably over the past few years. In Bergen and Hudson County, the stretch of suburbs and urban centers sitting one to five miles across the Hudson River from Manhattan, median sale prices in the northern Bergen County suburbs now land between ...
The New Jersey coast has been one of the country’s most consistently strong residential markets for nearly two decades. But in 2026, a divergence is emerging that complicates the simple “hot market” narrative: single-family homes along the shore remain firmly in seller territory, while condos and townhomes, particularly in Ocean County, are seeing inventory build, ...
The conventional wisdom about Orlando’s real estate market, that it’s either cooling off or holding steady, misses what’s actually happening at the neighborhood level. In Lake Nona, a master-planned community in southeast Orlando developed by Tavistock, the market is not moving as one uniform whole. Builder incentives are drawing some buyers toward new construction, while ...
The conventional wisdom in residential real estate, wait for rates to fall before buying, may be exactly backward for veterans and military buyers with access to VA financing. While much of the market sits frozen, waiting for relief, a different logic is playing out among borrowers who can access rates meaningfully below conventional levels and ...
Central New York’s housing market is being reshaped by a single infrastructure project. The Micron chip fabrication facility under construction in Onondaga County has tightened inventory so severely that buyers are pushing 20 miles or more into surrounding counties to find available homes, creating a ripple effect that has doubled rents in some areas over ...
A single rental property reclassified from residential to commercial in Tennessee does not just change a label on a tax roll; it triggers a 60% increase in the property tax assessment. In Rutherford County, the state’s fastest-growing county with nearly 400,000 residents and $81 billion in assessed real estate, that reclassification is now being imposed ...
Los Angeles multifamily investors are sitting on the sidelines in large numbers, frustrated by local politics and rising operating costs. But the same regulatory environment discouraging existing owners is creating a specific kind of opportunity, one that hinges not on what a building produces today, but on what can be added to it. The shift ...
In most major U.S. metros, luxury residential prices have either recovered from pandemic-era disruptions or pushed past their 2019 peaks. In downtown Chicago, several of the city’s most invested-in neighborhoods, Gold Coast, Streeterville, Magnificent Mile, and parts of River North, remain flat to down over the past five years. That gap between Chicago’s trajectory and ...
A property that sits on the market too long in the Chicago suburbs doesn’t just lose momentum; it loses credibility with buyers. Listings that expire without a sale carry a stigma, and relisting at the same or higher price rarely solves the underlying problem. But agents working the Berwyn corridor and surrounding towns are finding ...
The prevailing narrative about Austin, Texas, real estate in 2026 is that it’s a buyer’s market. National coverage has emphasized cooling prices, rising inventory, and a correction from pandemic-era peaks. But in West Austin, the cluster of communities including Bee Cave, Lakeway, Westlake, and Spicewood, the picture is considerably more fragmented. Depending on the neighborhood ...
The conventional narrative about Los Angeles housing centers on scarcity and rising costs. But on the rental side, the story has reversed, and most coverage has not caught up. According to Jesse Sasomsup, Founder & President of Earnest Homes, a residential property management firm operating in Los Angeles since 2015, rents across the city have ...
